The arrival of 2013 Topps means the newest batch of Rookie Cards, stars and more to fill the cardboard annals of history.

It also means more trivia.

On the back of each and every standard card in the first series of 330 is a “Career Chase” line that notes a player’s progress in his chase of history. It’s one that in some instances shows how close players are — check Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez for example — but in others? Well, those aren’t all that close and some are downright comical.

The ironies of life in the game aren’t lost on some players, either.

Via Twitter, I showed Oakland A’s pitcher Sean Doolittle his Rookie Card and its Career Chase line that reads “With one save, Doolittle is 607 saves away from Mariano Rivera’s all-time record of 608.”

After seeing some of the other chases presented for some of his other younger Oakland teammates, he also jokingly tweeted this in response: “I wonder if the Career Chase guy at Topps has a vendetta against Major Leaguers because he didn’t make his [Little League] All-Star team.”

When contacted for this story, the Career Chase guy, Topps baseball editor Colin Butler, offered this retort.

“Actually, the topps editor is a four-time Virginia Little League All-Star,” he tweeted. “Zero away from the all-time record.”

Doolittle then offered this: “Plus there’s this now which hangs in my locker for motivation. hahaha pic.twitter.com/0Pmhx7cf.”

He wasn’t the only player to react to his new cardboard. Collector Brad Ziegler, who a reliever for the Arizona Diamondbacks and also a former Oakland Athletic, saw his Career Chase line that reads “with 323 games pitched Ziegler is 929 away from Jesse Orosco’s all-time record of 1,252.”

Patrick: Pete Rose is on baseball’s Ineligible List. That means he will not appear on any MLB-licensed cards.

Al: This is not from Topps, but I have heard that Mays’ vision has become an issue — he can’t sign stickers because he can’t see them on the sheet. I’d imagine baseballs might be an issue for whatever reason now, too. If I had to guess, this is a reason the baseballs aren’t being made.

Bonds lied to Congress Roes lied to Baseball commish. he’ s more important than Congress, this thing that card companys won’t even say or print Pete Rose’s record is stupid he still owns it, a ban doesn’t erase that.

I understand why Topps doesn’t create cards of Pete Rose. But referencing his name on the back of the cards doesn’t seem to meet that criteria. It also isn’t consistent with baseball’s own treatment of Rose’s ban. They have banned him from (almost) all things associated with the game, but they still acknowledge his statistics. If you go to the MLB site – Pete Rose sits at the top of the hit list on their statistics page. It doesn’t say “all-time hit leader”.

Interestingly and on a related note, Topps did insert a stamped buyback of his rookie card of his into 1963 Heritage. There was one up on eBay last year. I’d think that could get them in more trouble than putting his name on the back of someone else’s card.